St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-20
DRAMATIC DRIFT.

DRAMATIC DRIFT.
There has been commingling of bad
and good plays at the Grand last week.
The "Michael StrOgOff" performance
the first of the week was the weakest of
the many weak attractions that have
been seen here this year. ROLAND
REED, the popular comedian, played
three of his best comedies during the
last half of the week to good houses.
REED is RAYMoND'S Legitimate sue
cessOr and will be recognized as such.
He deserves credit for providing him
self with such an excellent supporting
company.
During all of the present week the
Boston Ideal Opera company, with the
popular favOrite, ZELIE DE LUSSAN, as
principal prima donna, will be the at
traction at the Grand. The company is
so well known in this city as to need no
mention farther than the announcement
that it is coming. The repertoire for the
week will be: Monday evening,
daughter of the Regiments" Tuesday
Victor, the Blue Stocking;" Wednes-
day, Bohemian Girl;" Friday and Sat
urday, Garment" Saturday matinee,
"Adina, or Elixir of Love"
''The Daughter of the Regiment" will
be presented tomorrow night with the
following cast: Marie, Mile. DE LUs-
SAN; Tonic, FRANK BANTER; Sergt.
Sulpice, W. III. CLARK; Bruno, G.
BAINBRIDGE; Corporal, J. c: MIRON;
Countess of Berkenfelt, Miss HELEN ID.
CAMPBELL: Babette, Miss LOUISE Ed
GAR. Miss HELEN CAMPBELL, the
70 re DnCfOn IdoatS
trained and put upon the stage by Nine.
CAPTAIN. She has everywhere this
season been praised for the quality of
her voice and the pleasing character of
her acting.
1t will be gratifying to st. Paul opera
lovers that there is to be new opera in
the Ideals repertoire. Carmen" is not
a new opera, but it will be new on the
st. Paul stage, having never been sung
here. The plot is simple one, but the
music is superbly grand and difficult.
The plot is briefly outlined as follows:
Jose, a brigadier of dragons at Seville,
is waiting the arrival Of Michaela, a
peasant girl, with a letter and purse
from his mother. A band of girls ar
rive at the cigar factory opposite, and
Carmen, the prettiest and most coquet-
fish, throws him bouquet. Jose falls
distractedly in love. A quarrel enSueS
among the girls in the factory. Car
men, declared the assailant, is ordered
to prison. She faScinateS the luckleSS
brigadier till he cOnnives at her escape
and is himself placed under arrest for
it. Carmen returns to her wandering
Gypsy life and temptS Jose, who meets
her outside the walls, to desert. He
refuses. but, quarreling with his supe-
mir off ahnnt (iarman &c fOrppn tn
Join the smugglerS. Garments love
grows cold. EscamillO, the popular
toreador, wOos her, while the jealous
Jose departs to visit his dying mother.
Carmen is faithleSS. She goes with
Escamillo to the bull fight at Seville.
Jose pursueS her, and, frantic at her
desertion and avowed affection for
Escamillo, stabs her to the heart.
The Boston Ideals will not play re-
turn engagement here this season. AS
this will be the only opportunity to hear
this favOrite company it is reasonable to
expect that the weeks engagement viii
be successful one and will be made a
social event of importance.
SACKETT & WIGGINs commenced the
work of remodeling the Exposition rink
last week, and will soon have it fitted
up as theater hall. The remOdeling
is being done under the supervision of
Architect WoOD, who promises to make
an amusement hall of it that the city
will not be ashamed of. 1t is under
stood that when completed the new
theater will be run in combination with
the Hennepin Avenue theater in Mime
apOlis, just as the two GraEdS of the
Twin Cities are now being run. 1t is
expected to be open for business by the
hapinninp of the new wear
ED HILTON is making a phenomenal
success of the Olympic this season, and
has been doing it by playing attracting
attractions.
DIR. JOSEPH PARKER's lecture on
"GladStOne" at Market hall tomorrow
night promises to be one of the rarest
literary treats that st. Paul ever en-
loved. DR.. PARKER has a worldwide
celebrity as lecturer, and there is no
question but that he will fill Market hall
with an audience of st. PaulS most
cultured people.
The National Opera company is work
ing its way toward st. Paul, and will
reach here by the 10Th of next month.
The company, as reOrganiZed under Mr..
LOCKE'S management, has made brill
liant success. Its engagements in the
Eastern cities have been in the nature
of musical OvatiOns.
~
"The Bostonians," the lopped-Off
wing of the old Boston Ideal Organiza-
ton, has been playing the past week in
Detroit. Manager POND seems to have
been learning some OF the tricks OF his
cid tutor, Manager FOSTER, as he is
flooding the newspaper offices with pre-
paid kilograms containing the announce
ment of that hOary old chestnut,
standing room at premium and triple
encores."
Nobody ever heard of an army officer
going on the stage, and yet the Detroit
Free Press is authority for the state
ment that amateur theatrcals, of all
forms of amusement are most in favor at
frontier posts, where many of the Off
GERS and their ladies have obtained no
mean proficiency in depicting the joys
and sorrows set down by the dramatists.
The frontier stage setting is of most
primitive style. Wings of roughly
painted cotton, drops of army duck,
flies of quartermaSter's tarpaulins and
properties from the military quarters
make UP the stage paraphernalia.
So
Mrs. LANGTRY is something of a
speechmaker, as well as an actress.
When called before the curtain at To
ronto the other night she recognized the
compliment in very happy little
speech. After thanking the audience
for their cordial reception and making
some complimentary allusion to To
ronto, Mrs. LANGTRY said: "There is
another reason why am interested in
your city. have dear brother buried
in st. James cemetery, and don't like
to think of him as being among stran-
gers. want you all as you pass to drop
flower on his grave, for my sake" In
the burst of applause that followed an
irrenreSSible Young man in the gallery